layers of pork fat? solution, close down wet market and shao kao. oh their doing that

A friend of a friend runs a family operated shao kao stand at night... they rake in 30K a month! Yeah, no kidding.

I've found breakfast stands to be quite convenient in the early mornings. Now they've completely vanished in visible traffic areas. They'll find their way back soon enough once Kunming earns the coveted "civilized" badge.

@Dazzer: I'd rather put up with the pork fat.

many of the fatty oil slicks on the pavement and road in my arer are from the restaurants. after washing up they just go to the door and throw the contents of their buckets on to the ground. it's dangerous on a bike or on foot but they don't care because they don't live there... it's a problem with not caring about anyone else and goes a lot deeper than the kind of restaurant or stall. a lot of this Civilized Kunming stuff is just for show but forcing people to stop acting like selfish childern can't be a bad thing. for the record, I enjoy shao kao too.

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@ debaser: Not a custom I particularly like, personally, but I don't think it's seen as selfishness by most residents of Kunming, though I'll bet that many would appreciate it if it were not done. Note that restaurant staff may not live there but they are in the area daily, and I haven't heard customers complain either. Noisy behaviour of large groups inside the restaurants annoys me more, but I doubt if many customers are bothered by this, and I don't think applying force for that would be a good idea either.
Think it's a good idea not to confuse regulation with civilized behaviour or we'll all be on a downhill ride to Singapore, where the state thinks it should regulate everything.

@Alien - yup, the answer is not over the top regulation but a bit of common sense from

both sides wouldn't go amiss, no? "hey mr. shakao seller, mrs. restaurant manager stop throwing your wast in the street and there'll be no need to change things." By the way, I love the street food in Singapore though it isn't cheap.

common sense rofl

The common sense needs to change, about a lot of things in a lot of places among a lot of people.
No objection to the street food in Singapore.

I kinda like how they have repaved a lot of streets that were full of potholes or cracks.

One epic design flaw in some smaller alleys has been to plant trees right in middle of the sidewalks, which were thin to begin with and with trees inaccessible without some gymnastics - even without baby stroller or similar.

So the standard practise was to walk on the street, with pedestrians and cars (both moving and parked) dodging each other as best they can.

But now they have put the white fences also on some of these streets, separating the lanes for road traffic.

Thus cars going on one lane can no longer move to the neighbouring lane (even when available) to give room to pedestrians.

Timber!